WQI’s Jennifer Choy was recently featured as part of a series of profiles of scientists and engineers from across the Chicago Quantum Exchange member institutions. This post was originally published by CQE. Jennifer Choy is an …
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Using the Ancient Art of Kirigami to Make an Eyeball-like Camera
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, is reporting the development of a camera with a curvy, adaptable imaging sensor that could improve image quality in endoscopes, night-vision …
Tiny ‘ice cube tray’ could help restore sight
US researchers have developed a new scaffold that could help with the implantation of photoreceptors grown from stem cells Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have tackled the challenge of delivering photoreceptors to the retina …
Papailiopoulos receives 2021 UW–Madison Distinguished Teaching Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos is among the 13 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members chosen to receive 2021 Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. Papailiopoulos received the …
NSF CAREER Award will help Thompson build a better calorimeter
In nanoscale devices—such as the nanometer-sized transistors that make up computer microprocessors—tiny heat currents can have a big effect on those devices’ performance. To measure heat currents, researchers use a technique called calorimetry. Due to …
Micro-molded ‘ice cube tray’ scaffold is next step in returning sight to injured retina
Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable …
Thoma selected as AIME Honorary Member
Dan Thoma, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently selected as a 2021 Honorary Member of AIME. Thoma was chosen by the board of TMS, …
2021 Vilas Associates Competition awardees announced
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education has announced 23 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. …
Research effort driving advances to combat traumatic brain injuries
Many concussions don’t produce noticeable symptoms, leaving them likely to go undiagnosed and putting the injured at increased risk for lasting complications like brain damage. A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineer Christian …
UW–Madison to Continue Fundamental Data Science Research with Phase II Award from NSF
University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison …